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Disney’s deepfakes are getting closer to a big-screen debut
The Verge reports: "How close are deepfakes to being used in big-budget films and TV shows? Pretty damn close, if a new demo from...
Pentagon asks court for time to reconsider JEDI award to Microsoft
TechCrunch reports: "The JEDI contract award process might never be done. Following legal challenges from Amazon after the Pentagon’s massive, $10 billion cloud contract...
Facebook speeds up AI training by culling the weak
TechCrunch reports: "Training an artificial intelligence agent to do something like navigate a complex 3D world is computationally expensive and time-consuming. In order to...
2019 tech IPOs: The not-quite-banner year that could have been a...
VentureBeat reports: "While the much-hyped tech unicorns produced IPOs that amounted to giant face plants, the news was not all bad for the class...
8th Wall Launches WebAR Cloud-Based Authoring and Hosting Platform
VentureBeat reports: "8th Wall, a company that enables augmented reality on the web, is announcing the release of its cloud-based authoring and hosting platform."
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How Would Opening Up Facebook Change the Internet?
The Verge reports: "On October 22nd, some of Silicon Valley’s biggest critics introduced a bill that’s meant to undercut social media monopolies. The Augmenting...
Phone-Based VR is Officially Over
The Verge reports: "Mobile virtual reality headsets helped millions of people try out VR, but as of yesterday, they’re all but officially a thing...
Amazon’s Prime Video app disappears from the App Store
TechCrunch reports: "In what we understand was a “technical issue”, the Amazon Prime Video app disappeared from the Apple App Store, making it unavailable...
How Europe’s AI ecosystem could catch up with China and the...
VentureBeat reports: "From Alibaba and Baidu to Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, China and the United States produced virtually every one of the top consumer...
Honeycomb.io Raises $11.4M to Help Developers Observe and Debug Their Apps
TechCrunch reports: "As companies continue to expand the number of cloud-based tools and apps that are used to run their businesses, DevOps continues to...
